Herbert River/2010%e2%80%932011 Queensland Floods

Famous quotes containing the words herbert, river and/or floods:

    “They told me there, that he was lately gone
    About some land, which he had dearly bought
    Long since on earth, to take possession.”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)

    “But not luck
    brought us here. By design
    clear air and cold wind polish
    the river lights, by design
    we are to live now in a new place.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)